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Jim Keller, a star chip designer at Apple, AMD, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel, has joined Toronto-based Tenstorrent, a startup building AI chips(Dr. Ian Cutress/AnandTech)
Jim Keller, a star chip designer at Apple, AMD, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel, has joined Toronto-based Tenstorrent, a startup building AI chips — It is high praise when someone like Jim Keller says that your company ‘has made impressive progress, and has the most promising architecture out there’… Source
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SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas argues social media platforms are “sufficiently akin” to common carriers and can be regulated “in much the same way”(Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas argues social media platforms are “sufficiently akin” to common carriers and can be regulated “in much the same way” — Last fall, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that it was time to rein in Section 230 immunity… Source
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Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for $99 and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks()
Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for $99 and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks — Intel today launched the newest addition to RealSense, its product range of depth and tracking technologies designed to give machines depth perception capabilities… Source
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BitPay adds Apple Pay support for its prepaid Mastercard which allows users to instantly convert their cryptocurrencies into fiat to pay for goods and services(Corinne Reichert/CNET)
BitPay adds Apple Pay support for its prepaid Mastercard which allows users to instantly convert their cryptocurrencies into fiat to pay for goods and services — Bitcoin wallet BitPay’s Prepaid Mastercard users in the US can now add their card to Apple Wallet and Apple Pay will now allow Bitcoin … Source
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Intel brings back Shlomit Weiss, one of its famed chip architects, to lead all of its consumer chip development and design; Weiss returns to Intel from Nvidia(Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)
Intel brings back Shlomit Weiss, one of its famed chip architects, to lead all of its consumer chip development and design; Weiss returns to Intel from Nvidia _Intel announced that it is bringing back another one of its famed chip architects, 28-year veteran Shlomit Weiss… Source
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Q&A with Twitter’s senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more(Will Oremus/OneZero)
Q&A with Twitter’s senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more _ Twitter description guy’ isn’t a guy. It’s Twitter’s curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it… Source
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Developer of Amphetamine says Apple agreed to let the Mac app stay up with its current name and logo, after previously threatening to remove it due to its name(William C. Gustafson/GitHub)
Developer of Amphetamine says Apple agreed to let the Mac app stay up with its current name and logo, after previously threatening to remove it due to its name — Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it’s been downloaded over 432,800 times… Source
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Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+(Kate Clark/The Information)
Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+ — Zapier isn’t a household name in Silicon Valley, but the world’s top venture capitalists have long been trying to own a piece of the booming enterprise software firm… Source
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YC-backed DeFi startup Stablegains faces a lawsuit after losing $44M+ of users’ funds by investing them in UST, despite previously claiming it was using USDC(Timothy Craig/Crypto Briefing)
YC-backed DeFi startup Stablegains faces a lawsuit after losing $44M+ of users’ funds by investing them in UST, despite previously claiming it was using USDC — Stablegains has been accused of misleading customers about where their money was going. — Key Takeaways… Source
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Profile of Tether CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde, who previously ran a company in China that faced lawsuits over unpaid bills and fines for late tax payments(Financial Times)
Profile of Tether CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde, who previously ran a company in China that faced lawsuits over unpaid bills and fines for late tax payments — Jean-Louis van der Velde’s career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry.. Source
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